Sunday, 30 June 2013

Uke-ing around...

I know I've not posted for a few weeks but I will probably make up for it over the next few days! Last weekend saw us in Cheltenham for the Ukulele Festival of Great Britain 2013. This is becoming part of our annual calender and we make more friend each time we go. The Festival starts on the Friday night at a local pub with people moving from group to group joining in playing and singing songs. Its also a good place to spot your friends and catch up on the gossip.

Saturday started with hubby attending a workshop at the town hall so I blagged my way in as well and set up my spinning wheel and settled down for a day of spinning. The concert in the main hall started at 1 oclock so I was able to easily spin and listen to the music.

I took time out to visit the music stalls although there were some interesting ukes there, I found out a while ago that it really isn't an instrument that I want to play.

But this one looks like fun!!

One bobbin of yarn later and we headed back to the hotel to drop off the wheel and the ukes, then into town for a meal with some of the Nottingham Ukulele group and back to the town hall to catch up with the evenings acts.Not many photos of the evening acts, there were signs saying no photos but I don't think these two will cause any problems.

Sunday morning saw people gathering for the BIG BUSK in the centre of Cheltenham, some interesting caracters turned up and Sam Brown joined in on the balcony.

The afternoon was spent back at the pub with an open mic session with a lot of audience participation.

And I will leave you with some music from this guy, my own vid doesn't want to play properly though